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Literature and cultural studies

One of our grad students in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies is organising a panel for the Crossroads in Cultural Studies conference in June. It’s exploring links between literature and cultural studies. As part of the preparations, she is doing a survey of postgraduates and early career 
scholars working on literature in the [...]

Dismantling the home office

This weekend I took apart our home office. It’s the first step in reclaiming my life after finishing the book manuscript. In a tiny 2 bedroom apartment, there’s not much room in the first place. Why would I work in one of them? When clearly my study shows I can work in all of them? [...]

Press release for WfH project

This is the press release that went out today from the Sydney Uni media office. Thanks to Jackie Chowns for her work on this. Watch out for me on Sky news this afternoon (yes, you read that correctly!)
The much-touted “work/life balance” is shaping up to be riddled with paradox with new research [...]

Work’s Intimacy: Contents

I just sent off the manuscript that has been keeping me so anti-social. I am beside myself. I have no idea what my life will be like without this book weighing on my mind!
Below is the ToC. I have already sent some bits to a couple of you, but basically most of this is [...]

Last chapter

I am finally writing the last chapter of my book. It is the one called “Long hours, high bandwith: Negotiating domesticity at a distance”.
This chapter illustrates how office and home space are each transformed and rendered visible as ambient technologies allow a widening number of close companions throughout the working day. The “full time [...]

International Women’s Day

This afternoon the Women and Work Research Group at the University of Sydney held a special event for International Women’s Day. I was asked to present some of my research from the Working From Home study. Here is a copy of the text from my talk, and a powerpoint presentation for those interested in some [...]

10 things graduate students want

Over the past few months panelists for the SOI conference have been meeting and sharing plans for what they will present in their allotted time at the beginning of each session. The conference format is not the traditional paper-giving mode, but rather an open discussion with the audience following a series of provocations from invited [...]

A requiem for academic blogging

I’m about to post an update in preparation for next week’s SOI conference, but it seemed fitting to mention separately that an article I wrote some time ago about labour politics and academic blogging has just been published in Convergence. Well, fitting in the sense that last week I was in NYC at a conference [...]

Privacy and work

Today’s class was about intimacy and privacy, and it drew on the work of Michael Warner and Michel Foucault to talk about publics, discourse, power and confession. We read Emily Nussbaum’s article, “Kids, the Internet and the end of Privacy” which argues that the generation gap between those who up with the internet and those [...]

Some binaries I still believe in

Now I’m in Leeds where there are slightly more clouds in the sky but fewer people in the streets and that’s probably a combination I prefer. Yesterday I tested out my new HK running shoes and added another introduction to the book chapter I’m working on, precipitated by a range of conversations I’ve been having [...]

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